Senior Counsel
A well-established renewable energy platform is seeking a Senior Counsel to serve as a key strategic advisor to leadership and business stakeholders across development, financing, commercialization, and investment activities.
Reporting directly to the General Counsel, this attorney will play a leading role in structuring, negotiating, and executing sophisticated energy and infrastructure transactions across a diverse portfolio of renewable energy and energy storage projects. The position offers broad exposure to project development, project finance, M&A, and strategic investments, with the opportunity to influence critical business decisions and drive transactions from early-stage development through closing.
The ideal candidate is a commercially minded attorney who enjoys operating in a collaborative, hands-on environment where legal is deeply integrated with the business. This individual will partner closely with development, finance, commercial, and investment teams and will be trusted to independently lead complex transactions while helping advance the company's long-term growth objectives.
Key Responsibilities
Development, Commercial & Project Execution
- Serve as a key legal advisor to development, commercial, and investment teams throughout the project lifecycle.
- Draft and negotiate a broad range of agreements, including real estate, development, interconnection, offtake, EPC, supply, O&M, and other project-related contracts.
- Advise on permitting, regulatory, environmental, and land use matters.
- Identify and mitigate legal and commercial risks while supporting efficient project execution and long-term asset value.
Project Finance & Strategic Transactions
- Lead legal workstreams for project financings from structuring through financial close.
- Support debt, tax equity, tax credit transfer, sponsor equity, and other financing transactions.
- Draft and negotiate financing documentation and coordinate lender and investor diligence, closing requirements, and transaction execution.
- Advise on project acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, and other strategic investment opportunities.
Strategic Counsel & Cross-Functional Leadership
- Provide practical, business-oriented legal counsel to senior leadership and cross-functional stakeholders.
- Partner closely with development, finance, commercial, and investment teams to support strategic objectives and transaction execution.
- Manage outside counsel and advisors while driving efficient, cost-effective outcomes.
- Enhance legal processes, templates, and best practices to support a sophisticated and diverse project portfolio.
Qualifications
Required Experience
- Juris Doctor from an accredited law school and active bar membership in good standing.
- Approximately 8+ years of relevant transactional experience gained at a leading law firm, sophisticated in-house legal department, or a combination of both.
- Significant experience supporting renewable energy, infrastructure, project finance, project development, or complex commercial transactions.
- Demonstrated success leading negotiations and managing transactions independently from structuring through closing.
- Strong understanding of energy project development, financing structures, and commercial contracting.
- Ability to balance legal risk, commercial objectives, and transaction execution priorities.
- Excellent drafting, negotiating, and stakeholder management skills.
Preferred Background
- Experience supporting utility-scale renewable energy, energy storage, transmission, or broader infrastructure assets.
- Prior in-house experience with a developer, independent power producer (IPP), infrastructure investor, or energy platform.
- Familiarity with tax equity, transferable tax credits, construction-to-term financings, back-leverage structures, and portfolio-level transactions.
- Experience advising on project acquisitions, joint ventures, strategic investments, and development-stage asset sales.
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